A joint resolution making emergency additional funds available by transfer for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1987, for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Public Law 100-6 · H.J.Res. 102 · 100th Congress · began in the House
Signed by Ronald Reagan (R) on Feb 12, 1987 · Social Welfare
Sponsor: Rep. Jamie Whitten (D-MS-1)
Cosponsors: None
Passage votesYeaNay
- HouseVoice vote
- SenateRecorded vote: 78 yea, 5 nay78–5
Data notes
The final version of the law, as each chamber passed it. A chamber that passed it by voice vote or unanimous consent has no count. “Method not stated” means the record does not say how the chamber voted. Where the record has a member-by-member vote, the “Who voted for it” section shows who voted yea.
Summary
The Congressional Research Service’s plain-language summary of what the law does.
(Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #12 (78-5))
Rescinds specified disaster relief funds under the Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1987 and made available by Public Laws 99-500 and 99-591.
Transfers a specified amount from previously appropriated FY 1987 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster relief funds to the emergency food and shelter program. Transfers from such funds a specified amount to the Veterans Administration (VA) for treatment of chronically mentally ill veterans as provided for by this Act.
Amends Federal law to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to contract for care, treatment, and rehabilitative services in halfway houses, therapeutic communities, psychiatric residential treatment centers, and other community-based treatment facilities of eligible veterans suffering from chronic mental illness disabilities. Includes within such coverage homeless veterans with such disabilities.
Requires the Administrator to approve the quality and effectiveness of such program before entering into a contract for such care. Requires the Administrator to designate a VA employee to provide case management services for each veteran provided care and services under this provision. Sets forth the order of priority for providing such care to eligible veterans. Authorizes the Administrator to contract to provide in-kind assistance under this provision. Requires the VA to receive full reimbursement from the contract facility for any such in-kind assistance provided. Directs the Administrator, no later than three years after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees concerning the provision of such services.
Disapproves the recommendations of the President relating to pay rates of Members of Congress, Federal judges, and Federal officials under the Executive Schedule.
Disapproves a proposed deferral (D87-33) of budget authority for the Department of Agriculture's temporary emergency food assistance program.
Who voted for it
Every senator of the 100th Congress on the ideology compass. Highlighted: the 81 who voted yea on final passage. Faded: everyone else, including those who voted nay, did not vote, or had not yet taken office.
81 yea6 nay13 present or did not vote
Democrats who voted yea(50)
- Sen. William ProxmireD-WI
Sen. Kent ConradD-ND
Sen. Tom HarkinD-IA
Sen. Barbara MikulskiD-MD
Sen. Ted KennedyD-MA- Sen. Paul SimonD-IL
- Sen. Howard MetzenbaumD-OH
- Sen. Spark MatsunagaD-HI
Sen. Carl LevinD-MI- Sen. Brock AdamsD-WA
- Sen. Paul SarbanesD-MD
- Sen. Dale BumpersD-AR
- Sen. Quentin BurdickD-ND
- Sen. Albert GoreD-TN
Sen. Patrick LeahyD-VT- Sen. James SasserD-TN
Sen. John KerryD-MA- Sen. Donald RiegleD-MI
- Sen. George MitchellD-ME
- Sen. Claiborne PellD-RI
Sen. Daniel InouyeD-HI- Sen. John MelcherD-MT
Sen. Jay RockefellerD-WV- Sen. Tom DaschleD-SD
Sen. Max BaucusD-MT- Sen. David PryorD-AR
Sen. Christopher DoddD-CT- Sen. Daniel MoynihanD-NY
Sen. Robert ByrdD-WV
Sen. Joseph BidenD-DE- Sen. Wendell FordD-KY
- Sen. John GlennD-OH
- Sen. Timothy WirthD-CO
- Sen. Wyche FowlerD-GA
- Sen. John JohnstonD-LA
Sen. Harry ReidD-NV- Sen. John BreauxD-LA
- Sen. James ExonD-NE
- Sen. Lawton ChilesD-FL
Sen. Jeff BingamanD-NM- Sen. Bob GrahamD-FL
- Sen. John StennisD-MS
- Sen. Lloyd BentsenD-TX
- Sen. Fritz HollingsD-SC
- Sen. Samuel NunnD-GA
- Sen. Dennis DeConciniD-AZ
- Sen. David BorenD-OK
Sen. Richard ShelbyD-AL- Sen. Howell HeflinD-AL
- Sen. Edward ZorinskyD-NE
Republicans who voted yea(31)
- Sen. John ChafeeR-RI
- Sen. Henry HeinzR-PA
- Sen. Mark HatfieldR-OR
- Sen. David DurenbergerR-MN
- Sen. William CohenR-ME
Sen. Arlen SpecterR-PA- Sen. Robert PackwoodR-OR
- Sen. John DanforthR-MO
- Sen. Nancy KassebaumR-KS
- Sen. William RothR-DE
- Sen. Alfonse D’AmatoR-NY
Sen. Pete DomeniciR-NM- Sen. Daniel EvansR-WA
Sen. John WarnerR-VA
Sen. Thad CochranR-MS- Sen. Rudy BoschwitzR-MN
Sen. Chuck GrassleyR-IA- Sen. Larry PresslerR-SD
Sen. Richard LugarR-IN- Sen. Paul TribleR-VA
- Sen. Robert DoleR-KS
- Sen. Alan SimpsonR-WY
- Sen. Robert KastenR-WI
Sen. Mitch McConnellR-KY- Sen. Pete WilsonR-CA
- Sen. Strom ThurmondR-SC
- Sen. Frank MurkowskiR-AK
Sen. Orrin HatchR-UT- Sen. Jacob HechtR-NV
- Sen. Jake GarnR-UT
- Sen. Don NicklesR-OK
Data notes
The Senate’s recorded vote on the final version of the law (roll call 12 in Voteview), matched to the vote the record cites and checked against its totals. Positions are each member’s DW-NOMINATE score for that Congress, as on the Ideology page; left to right is more liberal to more conservative. Paired and announced yea votes count as yea. Lists follow the compass, most liberal first. A name links to a profile only for members of the current Congress. A law passed by voice vote or unanimous consent has no member list, and neither does a vote Voteview has not yet recorded.
Committees
The committees the bill was sent to, and what each did with it.
Data notes
A committee links to its page only where it exists in the current Congress; older and renamed committees are named without a link.
Timeline
From introduction to signing, newest first: the committees, the floor and the president. 15 actions.
- Feb 12, 1987Became lawBecame law · Became Public Law No: 100-6.
- Became lawBecame law · Signed by President.
- Feb 4, 1987PresidentPresident · Presented to President.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · House Agreed to Senate Amendments by Voice Vote.
- Feb 3, 1987Resolving differencesResolving differences · Unanimous Consent Request to Take from the Table and to go to Conference Rejected in House.
- Jan 29, 1987FloorFloor · Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 78-5. Record Vote No: 12.Senate roll call 12
- FloorFloor · Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to to the bill agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 67-22. Record Vote No: 10.Senate roll call 10
- FloorFloor · Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
- CommitteeCommittee · Reported by Senate Appropriations Committee
- CommitteeCommittee · Markup by Senate Appropriations Committee
- Jan 28, 1987CommitteeCommittee · Referred to Senate Appropriations Committee
- Jan 27, 1987FloorFloor · Passed House by Yea-Nay Vote: 296 - 79 (Record Vote No: 13).House roll call 13
- Jan 22, 1987CommitteeCommittee · Reported by House Appropriations Committee
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Appropriations Committee
- IntroducedIntroduced · Introduced in the House
Data notes
Shows the introduction, each committee and subcommittee step the source dates (referral, hearings, markup, report, discharge), and the floor, conference, presidential and became-law steps. Calendar placements, messages between the chambers, amendments and committee report numbers are not shown for laws before the 108th Congress. Two entries the source lists twice are shown once.
Official record
The bill’s full text and every action, including introduction and committee steps, are on Congress.gov. Data through Oct 7, 2026.